Adjustment device for machine elements.



R. W. SCOTT.

ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR MACHINE ELEMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYYZS. 19x3.

Patented May 11, 1915.

tary element, such as a member of a gear ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADJUSTMENT DEVICE FOR MACHINE ELEMENTS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be-it known that I, Bonner vW. Soorr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident .fof Boston, in the county of Sufi'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in 'Adjustment Devices for Machine Elements, of which the following is a specification.-

My invention relates to adevice for the accurate adjustment of the angular relation of a machine element, such as a member of a gear train, to a shaft upon which it is mounted.

An object of my invention is to secure the accurate or fine rotative adjustment of a rotrain, or a cam or other element of the pattern devices of a textile machine, or an element of an associating device for a rotary printing machine, or for use in any other situation requiring accurate adjustmentbetween the primary drive member and a remote driven member.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of a gear train showing the end of the power or drive shaft and the adjustable gear of said train; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1; Fig. 8 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a section on the line.4r4= ,of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is 'a view similar to Fig. 4 showing another position of the adjustableelement; Fig. 6 1s a detail in perspective; Fig. 7 is a section transverse to the driving shaft showing a modified form; Fig. 8 is a figure similar to Fig. 7 showing another modification; Fig. 9 is a detail in perspective showing one form of the transverse, adjustable member; Fig. 10 is a view similar to Fig. 7 illustrating another modification; Figs. '11 and 12 show respectively a detail section and plan of a,

further modification.

In machines of the classes above indicated it sometimes becomes necessary to rotatably adjust the position of elements in relation to each other with accuracy after the machine has been assembled. Where the element adjusted is for instance driven by a gear trainsuch as that comprising the gear 2 and 3, of which the gear 2 is the primary or driving member and the gear 3 a secondary or driven member, coarse adjustments Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 25, 1918. Serial No. 781,053.

Patented May 11, 1915.

may be made by sliding one of the gears upon 1ts shaft or stud out of mesh with the other gear or gears and reassembling them in engagement. But adjustments of the angular positlon of the whole train with respect to the primary driving element, for instance the shaft 1, must now be relied upon to complete the accurate setting of the ultimate drlven part. Fine adjustments through an angle less than one pitch distance of an intermeshing gear are difiicult to make by usual machinists expedients, for lnstance as by unlocking the gear 2 from its engagement with the shaft 1, which may be assumed to rotate with respect to the remainder of the machine at a constant relation to said machine, and rotating said gear by hand. The same considerations apply when the members to be adjusted are not gears, for instance when a cam or a crankdisk or other element is the member available for adjustment. My new device provides a simple and cheap construction for this purpose comprising in one form a trans verse bore 4 formed in the end of the driving shaft 1, in which bore is seated for rota-- tion a short transverse shaft ora pin 5 havmg a projecting integral eccentric portion 6 slotted at 7 for a screw-driver. The adjusted rotary position with respect to the shaft 1 of the pin 5 may be fixed by the set screw 8 in a threaded bore axial of the shaft 1.

shaft 1, and I may thereafter mill or otherwise form a slot 11 in the bottom of the channel 10, the walls of the said slot occupy ing radial planes, and being of a distance apart to receive the eccentric portion 6 of the pin 5. The width of the slot 11 at its intersection with the bore in the hub '9 may be accurately of the diameter of the eccentric portion 6, but a slight play or looseness is of no disadvantage in most situations.

lhe adjustment of the part 2 with respect to j the driving shaft 1 and therefore to any agencies of the machine related to said driving shaft 1 may be made by loosening the screws 8 and 12 and rotating the in 5 by means of the slot 7 and a screw river or wrench applied therein, the desired adjustment being retained by locking the set screw 8, and the driving strain on the eccentric portion 6 being relieved by 'lockingtheset screw 12.

My device may be embodied in slightly different forms without altering the principle of its operation. I have shown, for instance, in Fig. 7 a modification suitable to a situation in which the end of the shaft 1 is not readily accessible. In this form the eccentric member is an enlarged head 13 integral with a reduced pin 14 held in a transverse bore in the shaft 1. Said head 13 may be squared as at 15 for a wrench and the pin 14 may be provided with a groove 16 for a set screw 17 in a threaded bore inshaft 1, and having a head freely movable in a flaring slot 18 in the hub 20 of the part to be adjusted. The eccentric portion 13 takes loosely into a slot 19 in the said hub. The adjustments may be eifected by loosening the screw 17 and turning the pin and the hub member 20 with it throu h the desired small angle, then tightening t e screw.

As shown in Fig. 8, I may mternally thread the bore in the shaft 1 for a screw 21 having a flaring head 22 reactin with a cam slope 23 formed in the hub 24 o the gear or other element to be adjusted. The head of the screw 22 will then move the member 24 (which may be a cam or gear, for instance) about the axis of the shaft 1 by the cam action of the head 22 when the screw is rotated. It will be understood that in practice the member 24 may be locked in place by other means such as a set screw after the adjustment is effected.

As shown in Fig. 9, I may make the form of my device above described as a round pin 5 slotted at 25, beveled at 26, and driven to a tight fitin the bore 4 in a shaft 1, the eccentric portion 6 remaining the same as that illustrated in Fig. 6. I may, however, employ a square or other shaped end '27 instead of the screw driver slot 7 shown in said Fig. 6. The same ends may be reached by the device shown in Fig. 10 in which a pin 5 driven home in the bore 4 of the shaft 1 is provided with a truncated cone head 28 integrally formed therewith, said cone having its apex in line with one of the surfaces of.

the pin 5, in order that it may cooperate with the walls of a arallel-wall slot '29 milled in the hub of t e element to be adjusted, shown at 30. The eccentricity and the position of the axis of the cone 28 are such as to permit the said cone head to contact with one wall of the slot 29 in all positions, with the wall of the slot lying nearly parallel with an'elemert of the surface of the cone at any angular position of the art 30 with res ectto the axis of the sh 1. As before t e element 30 may belocked in place by any well known expedient after the adjustment is reached, although for many uses no locking-means will be uired, the adjusting device furnishing a dent key or dog to transmit the required power.

In Figs. 11 and 12 I have illustrated. a.

modification in which the eccentric member is a washer 31 havin an eccentric bore 32, said washer being hel for rotation on a concentric portion 33 of a pin 50, which may be driven or firmly fixed in a bore 4 in the shaft 1. The washer 31 may enter, with sufficient play orlooseness to enable it to be turned,

in a slot such as the slot 29, in an element to;

be adjusted such as the part 30. The eccentric member 21 may be turned by means of the slot 34 and a screw driver,which may a bifurcated screw driver.

My device is available in any situation in which there is a; driving and. driven member and an intervening rotary element which itis desirable to adjust with respectv to the driving memben, may, as mere instances, I thus vary the relation of a main pattern or cam shaft, a driven pattern cam drum, and an auxiliary pattern in a textile machine such as a 100m or a knitting machine, or the relation of. the printing rolls in a multicolor printing press, or the relation between, the parts of many other machines to which my device is of obvious application.

What I claim is 1. A device for adjusting the angular position of a machine element comp-rising aj drive shaft, a member mounted on said shaft normally for'rotation therewith, and means held in a transverse bore in said shaft having a rotatable eccentric portion engaging said member to determine the angular posi tion of said member on said shaft.

2. In an adjustment device for machine elements a drive shaft, a normally fixed member mounted on said shaft for rotation therewith, and means for adjusting the angular position of said normally fixed member comprising rotatable means housed in a transverse bore in said shaft having eccentric portion engaging said normally fixed member, to determine its position on said shaft, and means for locking said nor-- mally fixed member in its adjusted osition.

/ 3. A gear train having adjusta leele- Y .120

ments comprising a driving shaft, a pin in a transverse bore in said shaft having an ec centric portion projecting from said in, a part mounted on said shaft having a ti slot embracing said eccentric portion,

means to lock said pin and said part with re spect to said driving shaft.

4. As an article of manufacture an adjustment member for determining the posi-.

another comprising a split pin havin centric portion atone end thereof, said portion being formed for the reception of a. tool ROBERT SCOTT for rotatlng the eccentric portion when the Witnesses: structure is in its seated position. 1 \MARY F. GRIFFIN,

In testimony whereof, I have signed my Y O. Soumwonm specification in the presence ofg an em two subscribing witnesses. 

